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Cover
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Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Speaking Truth to Power to Change the Ivory Tower
Part I: Working/Learning in the Academy While Working/Learning as a Mom
1. How We Learned to Stop Worrying and to Enjoy Having It All
2. Academia or Bust: Feeding the Hungry Mouths of the University, Babies, and Ourselves
3. Diverse Academic Support for an Employee, Mother, and Nontraditional Student
4. Breaking the Glass Ceiling While Being a Mother: Parenting, Teaching, Research, and Administration
5. To Tell or Not to Tell: Single Motherhood and the Academic Job Market
6. Class, Race, and Motherhood: Raising Children of Color in a Space of Privilege
Part II: Unexpected Challenges and Momentous Revelations
7. Four Kids and a Dissertation: Queering the Balance Between Family and Academia
8. “Tía María de la Maternity Leave”: Reflections on Race, Class, and the Natural-Birth Experience
9. Threads That Bind: A Testimonio to Puerto Rican Working Mothers
10. Parenting Within the Nexus of Race, Class, and Gender Oppression in Graduate School at a Historically Black College/University
11. Sobreviviendo (and Thriving) in the Academy: My Tías’ Counterconsejos and Advice
12. Revolving Doors: Mother-Woman Rhythms in Academic Spaces
Part III: Creating More Parent-Friendly Institutions of Higher Learning
13. Academic Library Policies: Advocating for Mothers’ Research and Service Needs
14. Reimagining the Fairytale of Motherhood in the Academy
15. Tales from the Tenure Track: The Necessity of Social Support in Balancing the Challenges of Tenure and Motherhood
16. How Higher Education Became Accessible to Single Mothers: An Unfinished Story
17. Making It Work: Success Strategies for Graduate Student Mothers
18. Academic Mothers on Leave (but on the Clock), on the Line (and off the Record): Toward Improving Parental-Leave Policies and Practices
19. Supporting Academic Mothers: Creating a Work Environment with Choices
Epilogue: Final Reflections
References
List of Contributors
Index
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